Transfer Facility

Transfer Program
Settings

The Transfer menu items can be found by
clicking on the File menu.

There could be several reasons why you
might want to transfer the program settings from one computer to
another. Whatever the reason, use these menu items to do
it. The program creates aTransfer Archive(ZIP file) to achieve this goal. This is what the
transfer archive contains:

Public Talks.MDB (the main program
database)Scripts Folder (your custom report
scripts - if any)Registry settings

It should be understood that this
facilitytransfersthe settings across to another PC.
It does notmergethe settings. When you restore the
archive onto the target PC, the database will be replaced, as will
the custom reports and registry settings.

Below you can find more information about
the transfer facility:

Transfer to another
PC

Select this menu item when you want to
create a transfer archive. You can then use this archive on
another PC and restore the program settings from it. When you
select the menu item, it displays the usual file selection dialogue
box for you to specify a new transfer archive. Make sure you
know where you are saving it, because you will have to then copy
that file onto a CD, or email it, or use whatever means available
to you to get it from you PC across to the other one. The
easiest way would be to save the archive directly onto a floppy
disk. You could then just take the disk across to the other
PC and use it.

If you choose
the floppy disk drive as the place to create the transfer
archive, then the archive
is created as a "spanned disk" archive. This means, that it
will use more than one disk if necessary in order to create the
transfer archive. If you have a very large database, and / or
existing data on the floppy disks, then it is possible that it will
need to span across more than one disk. If you end up
spanning disks, make sure you clearly label each disk, eg: Disk 1
of XX where XX is the total number of disks. Note that it
will still ask for disk 1, even though the disk might already be in
the drive.

Use this menu item to restore the settings
from an existing transfer archive. The transfer archive MUST
have been created by the Public Talks Software, it will not work
with your own ZIP files.

When you select the menu item, you are shown
the usual file dialogue to select the transfer archive to restore.
If the archive is on several floppy disks, then make sure you put
in the first disk in the set.

You are then asked to
confirm that you want to proceed with the
transfer. All replaced files are sent to the recycle
bin during the transfer procedure. So whilst the operation
can't be reversed, the legacy data files should still be available
in the recycle bin.

When the archive has been restored, the
program will need to close down and restart for the changes to the
settings and database to take effect. You will be prompted about
this, and it will all be done automatically for you.